2015-04-08
As you already know, the new software update for Wireless AudioCubes gives you orientation info as well as distance info when two cubes detect each other in an AudioCubes network. You can send this data via MIDI to any software or hardware instrument you can imagine, to turn routings on or off between synth or effect modules, while at the same time changing modulation depth of the routings or other parameters.
This is a very powerful idea, which is demo'ed to great effect by Salamanderanagram: he set up an effect matrix in Reaktor, in which he can change the routings as well as effect intensity simultaneously, using a few AudioCubes. When an cube detects another cube, a connection is made, and when you move the cubes closer together the modulation depth changes.
The demo is split up in two parts - in this part he shows what topology mode is and what it means to get detection, orientation and distance info all at the same time. In the next video, you will see his Reaktor patch working as he moves the AudioCubes in the network. Enjoy!